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English | 2022 | ISBN: 0812997921 | 378 pages | True EPUB | 11.74 MB
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family-and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves-in this "brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation" (The Boston Globe).
"Newton is a logical thinker and a hyperacute observer, with a prodigious memory and a lacerating honesty. She's a transparent and at times lyrical writer."-Los Angeles Times
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Oprah Daily, Time, Esquire, The Millions, The Week, Thrillist, She Reads, Lit Hub, BookPage
Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married thirteen times and been shot by one of his wives. Her mother's grandfather killed a man with a hay hook and...
